Swallow the cud - there will be a turn of the intestines
…And maybe you’ll even die!This myth used to circulate among children and was actively supported by some adults. They reasoned like this: chewing gum will get stuck in the intestines, stick and remain in the body forever, poisoning it with "harmful chemicals." In fact, chewing gum that gets into the stomach goes the same way as any other food, and, pushed by the intestinal walls, leaves the body naturally. Under the influence of gastric juice, which is concentrated acid, chewing gum loses its stickiness and does not stick to anything. Doctors are unanimous in only one thing: do not chew gum on an empty stomach, this activates the secretion of gastric juice, and this "idle work" is not good for an empty stomach.
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You walk in winter without a hat - you will get sick with meningitis
This scare was always accompanied bya story about a boy from a neighboring school who, although he survived this same meningitis, "became a fool." However, no one has ever seen this boy himself. Let's figure it out. What is meningitis? It is an infectious disease caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. Meningitis causes inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord. Bacterial meningitis is called the most dangerous of all types. The disease is insidious, because its symptoms are very similar to the flu. Meningitis is fraught with disability, and in the most severe cases, death. Anyone can catch a meningococcal infection, but it is most dangerous for people with weakened immunity and for children under 5 years old, whose immunity has not yet formed. Hypothermia of the head can very well cause a weakening of the immune system and provoke the development of meningococcal infection. Walking in the cold without a hat does not guarantee meningitis, but it can very well be its cause.
Swallow sweet - the priest will slip
It's funny, but when I was a child I sometimes believed in such things.But in vain. No butt can stick together from sweets. In fact, adults joked like that, but they were protecting sweet-toothed people from something completely different: from chronic pancreatitis, from gastritis, from obesity and type 2 diabetes. This is exactly what is dangerous about overindulging in sweets.
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You walk in the winter in a short skirt - you can not have children
Well, who thinks about some future children inCarefree 16 years? In the 90s it was fashionable to show off in miniskirts, in the 2000s - to freeze your kidneys to an icy crunch in short jackets and jeans pulled down to your hips, now young people are terrifying with their manner of flashing bare ankles from under cropped trousers in January. What is the danger of hypothermia? The occurrence of inflammatory processes and circulatory disorders due to constant narrowing of blood vessels. Inflammation of the uterine appendages can become chronic and provoke obstruction of the fallopian tubes. That is, in fact, infertility. So the mothers were right. Girls need to protect their pelvic organs from hypothermia.
You will smoke - you will not grow up
Just about to become an adult, beautifultook a drag on a thin cigarette, gracefully exhaled the smoke, and then here you go – you won’t grow! What boring adults won’t come up with to ruin a person’s life… Our body continues to grow until the age of 25. But if you become addicted to smoking during the period of the most active growth, that is, during adolescence, then you really risk slowing down this process. And all because smoking negatively affects the body’s absorption of vitamins, inhibits the production of growth hormones and testosterone, and provokes oxygen starvation of muscle tissue. However, the growth of guys suffers the most, not girls – this is what the results of medical research show.
If there are seeds with husks, there will be appendicitis
The cause of appendicitis is a blockage of the vermiform appendix.appendix in the human intestine. And it can be caused by a variety of reasons. For example, helminthic invasions or regular abuse of heavy, high-calorie food. However, all sorts of "garbage" that is not digested by the body, such as cherry pits or sunflower husks, increase our chances of ending up on the operating table with a diagnosis of "appendicitis". Therefore, there is some truth in this warning: it is better to eat seeds in a peeled form.
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You can not look at welding: you will go blind
In fact, you won't go "permanently" blind, but"bunnies" will catch, and you also risk getting an eye burn if you look too close. It is not for nothing that welders wear a special mask - an electric arc gives off powerful ultraviolet radiation that can burn both the skin and the cornea of the eyes. Let's also deal with reading while lying down, the harmfulness of which we were also scared of. If you read in good lighting and hold the text no closer than 30 cm to your eyes, then nothing terrible will happen. However, doctors say that in a lying position the body is tuned to rest, so information is remembered worse.
Refuse from soup - you will earn an ulcer
In fact, stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria.Helicobacter pylori, and the development of the disease is stimulated by frequent stress, smoking and alcohol abuse. Of course, spicy and fatty foods also play a fatal role, diet soups would be much more useful. Doctors also did not find any connection between the absence of soups in the diet and the development of gastritis. The main thing is to ensure that the immune system does not weaken. However, hot soups are good as a stimulator of immunity during cold weather. But patients with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer generally need to be more careful with soups - thick, rich, concentrated meat broths of first courses are strictly prohibited for them.
Tossing your eyes to your nose, you can remain so
But this is if someone at this timethe moment will scare or hit you on the head. But that's not true. This is possible only in one case - with a congenital eye pathology, the so-called instability of the eye muscles. And if these muscles are stable, then you can squint as much as you want, you can even train your eye muscles.
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If you take a frog in your hands, there will be warts
I wonder if the frog is affected by contact with you.will have warts, and you will certainly have... Parotids, that is, bumps on the skin of a toad, are nothing more than a passive way for this animal to protect itself from external aggression. And it looks tasteless, and even a caustic liquid can squirt out from such skin. Therefore, if a child squeezed a frog to the point that he damaged its skin, make sure that he does not lick this unfortunate amphibian. But a toad cannot share warts with a person. This cosmetic defect is caused by the human papilloma virus, which can sleep in the body for years and become active with a weakened immune system. But your parents were right to scold you for playing with stray kittens and puppies: it is quite possible to catch ringworm from them.
